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Leah Remini writing Scientology tell-all
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Nah, they're wrong.
Scientology isn't really criticised for their beliefs. It's their abusive and secretive practices.
You can talk to any Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist and they'll happily tell you their beliefs. Scientology will ask you for millions before they even let you know their theology. If you can't see the difference between that and mainstream religion you probably deserve fedora comments tbh.
ElectricBlanketFire
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It's a South Park reference.
The Albatross
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You really don't know much about Scientology. Cults are hard to leave.
shira
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Ohboi
is this on right now?
The abusive and secretive practices of the RCC, the Anglican Church, the Salvation Army and Jehovah's Witness in Australia count as abusive and secretive, no doubt.
I don't believe the mainstream churches deserve any special consideration ahead of scientology. The Royal Commission into institutional abuse in Australia has demonstrated that with stark clarity.
Just as citizens of scientology and other religious creeds may be nice people, the reality is the organisations are all as rotten as each other. Some just pretend it's only because of bad apples instead of in the dna of the organisation.
Beer Monkey
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TIL Playstation Vue does not have A&E.
Institutional abuse and protection of abusers is not limited to religious organisations (see for example, Penn State in the US, the pedophile scandals in the UK, the liberal bastion of Hollywood, etc). That's not to downplay the abuses of religious institutions. It's gross and disgusting and I wish they were all thrown in prison.
My point wasn't that Scientology was bad and other religions were good. My point is there are significant and obvious differences between Scientology and mainstream religions and to throw everything in one category is ridiculous. Unless you want to categorise 99.9999% of all humanity that ever lived as cultists. That's your prerogative, but it devalues the word and allows actual cults to hide their practices behind legitimate religious groups.
Any Questions
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Yeah no kidding. I don't have "real TV," but I have access to A&E thru the net. Every 5 minutes, and always the same 4-5 commercials.
Very interesting though. Her show and AMA has answered a lot of my previously uninformed questions of "why don't they leave? " (blackmail and family disconnects) and "why would they believe in the first place (it apparently takes a lot of personal time, money, and effort to reach Level 3 Xenu stuff).
Not in US maybe? I'm not seeing it out there.
I've been reading more about The Hole and what goes on there. It's absolutely insane what these people will tolerate having done to themselves. To think there are people who have "willingly" lived in those conditions for years just boggles my mind. What sick levels of abuse. Makes you wish someone would just get in Miscavige's face and lay his ass out, make him feel a little bit smaller in his sick power fantasy world. Law enforcement really needs to step in and sort Scientology out, they're unquestionably a cult.
IrishNinja
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yeah, and the scene when everyone's breaking down...jesus
not like i was eager to prior, but i'm gonna have a hard time supporting shit with cruise or travolta in it
NeOak
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